Rubyripper is an audio CD ripping application designed to produce accurate digital copies of music CDs. It uses cdparanoia to read tracks repeatedly, comparing the results to identify and correct read errors.
Unlike conventional rippers that may read each track only once, Rubyripper prioritises extraction accuracy. This makes it particularly useful for archiving CD collections, including discs that are scratched or difficult to read.
The software offers both a GTK graphical interface and a command-line interface. It also provides flexible audio encoding and metadata management, allowing users to organise their music collections without manually entering album and track information.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Secure ripping compares multiple reads of each track to identify inconsistencies.
- Configurable matching thresholds and retry limits for recovering problematic audio.
- Detailed extraction logs identify corrected and unrecoverable errors, with MD5 checksums for individual tracks.
- Supports FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV and additional formats through external encoders.
- Encode tracks into multiple audio formats during a single ripping session.
- Retrieve and edit album, artist and track information from MusicBrainz and GnuDB.
- Drive read-offset correction for more accurate extraction.
- Supports cue sheets, pregaps and hidden audio tracks.
- Optional ReplayGain processing, audio normalisation and pre-emphasis correction.
- Configurable playlists and output filenames.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux and macOS, with command-line functionality on macOS.
Website: github.com/bleskodev/rubyripper
Support:
Developer: Bouke Woudstra (original author), bleskodev (fork maintainer)
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Rubyripper is written in Ruby. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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